Hollie Cook has a great new album out. We first met when she was singing with The Slits in NYC,. Last year I photographed her for a Kangol catalog looking cool in Camden. I took picures of her dad Paul Cook, drummer for the Sex Pistols in 1977. 
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Hollie Cook
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July 17th, 2011
The Go-Go’s at the Tail of the Pup LA
On August 11th 2011 The Go-Go’s will get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – the Los Angeles punk-pop girl band formed in 1978 and is still performing. I shot this photo of the girls at the historic hot dog stand ‘Tail of the Pup’ on La Cienega in 1980. The band line up was L-R Jane Weidlin, Margot Olavarria , Gina Schock, Belinda Carlisle and Charlotte Caffey. I loved LA in the early 1980’s : the architectural nostalgia, neon, buildings, artifacts were everywhere and they reminded me of 40’s and 50’s Hollywood films that I saw as an art student in London. The LA punk style often echoed 1950’s style from rockabilly to capri pants and stilletos. Sadly the site of the ‘Tail of the Pup’ is now a parking lot and the giant ‘hot dog’ is stored in a warehouse in Torrance.
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July 15th, 2011
Salt n Pepa
On a hot summer’s day in 1986 I was taking photos of a new group called Salt n Pepa for a British magazine called Sky. Salt n Pepa were like sisters, funny, cool girls from Queens wearing big gold earrings, chains and fake Louis Vuitton bags. It was their first ever photo shoot and we spent the day hanging out on Avenue C, on the Lower East Side. After that I met Hurby ‘Love Bug’ Azor. their manager, he asked me to shoot their album cover. A year later they had a new look and were the first girls to sport kente cloth hats, leather baseball jackets, spandex and gold dookie rope chains.
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July 13th, 2011